Nick Saban’s right-hand man is leaving Alabama. Ellis Ponder, the UA associate athletics director for strategic operations, ...

Ellis Ponder was in his second season as a student assistant in the equipment room when Nick Saban arrived in Tuscaloosa to ...

Ellis Ponder, Alabama’s associate athletics director for strategic operations who was a key deputy under Nick Saban, is set ...

As Alabama football nears its season, nearly 10 former Crimson Tide standouts are heading toward their rookie years.

Football practice is upon us! Some notes from the head man’s first press conference of fall camp are below. DeBoer on Deontae ...

The line for Williams got so bad that UA had to bring in extra help to manage it and make sure it was moving efficiently. Associate AD of Strategic Operations Ellis Ponder took charge and made ...

From there, the schedule worked backward. “We based everything off eating dinner at 6:15 p.m.,” said Ponder, who is in his fifth year. “It didn’t matter if we were playing in Bangladesh.

Prior to arriving at Alabama, Ponder spent just over four years working for the Bruno Event Team in Birmingham. He helped manage a wide array of sporting evets during his time with the Bruno Event ...